Package com.github.markusbernhardt.proxy.search.browser.firefox

Class FirefoxProxySearchStrategy

java.lang.Object

com.github.markusbernhardt.proxy.search.browser.firefox.FirefoxProxySearchStrategy

All Implemented Interfaces:

ProxySearchStrategy

public class FirefoxProxySearchStrategy
extends Object
implements ProxySearchStrategy

Loads the Firefox3 proxy settings from the users Firefox3 settings. This will load the file prefs.js that is located in the

.mozilla/firefox/(profile)/ folder.

See Mozilla_Networking_Preferences for an explanation of the proxy settings.

The following settings are extracted from this file:

Some generic settings:

• network.proxy.type -> n/a = use system settings, 0 = direct, 1 = Fixed proxy settings, 2 = proxy script (PAC), 3 = also direct , 4 = auto detect (WPAD)
• network.proxy.share_proxy_settings -> true = use same proxy for all protocols
• network.proxy.no_proxies_on -> a comma separated ignore list.
• network.proxy.autoconfig_url -> a URL to an proxy configuration script

Host names and ports per protocol are stored in the following settings:

• network.proxy.http
• network.proxy.http_port
• network.proxy.ssl
• network.proxy.ssl_port
• network.proxy.ftp
• network.proxy.ftp_port
• network.proxy.gopher
• network.proxy.gopher_port
• network.proxy.socks
• network.proxy.socks_port
• network.proxy.socks_version -> 4 or 5

Note that if there are more than one profile the first profile found will be used.

Author:

Markus Bernhardt, Copyright 2016, Bernd Rosstauscher, Copyright 2009

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
FirefoxProxySearchStrategy()	ProxySelector

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
String	getName()	Gets the printable name of the search strategy.
ProxySelector	getProxySelector()	Loads the proxy settings and initializes a proxy selector for the firefox proxy settings.
Properties	readSettings()	Reads the settings file and stores all settings in a Properties map.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

FirefoxProxySearchStrategy

public FirefoxProxySearchStrategy()

ProxySelector

See Also:

• ProxySelector()

Method Details

getProxySelector

public ProxySelector getProxySelector()
                               throws ProxyException

Loads the proxy settings and initializes a proxy selector for the firefox proxy settings.

Specified by:

getProxySelector in interface ProxySearchStrategy

Returns:

a configured ProxySelector, null if none is found.

Throws:

ProxyException - on file reading error.

getName

public String getName()

Gets the printable name of the search strategy.

Specified by:

getName in interface ProxySearchStrategy

Returns:

the printable name of the search strategy

readSettings

public Properties readSettings()
                        throws ProxyException

Reads the settings file and stores all settings in a Properties map.

Returns:

the parsed settings.

Throws:

ProxyException - on read error.